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blount was joined by four senators urging him to step aside. mitt romney urged the congressman to accept their counsel and exit the senate race. instead akin remained defiant accusing the republican presidential candidate of making a bigger deal than is necessary over his comments. "if you were in romney's position, don't you think that he may have bid this thing up and made a bigger deal about it than he needed to? why couldn't he run his ways raised and i run mine"? "can you name one person, one member of the united states senate, a lot of people named jim rubio, marco paul, is there any member of the senate in a called you and asked you to stay in?" >> no, polls show we're up a point." >> rape is an evil act. i used the wrong words in the wrong way and for that i apologize. as the father of two daughters i want tough justice for predators, i have a compassionate heart for the victims of sexual assault and i pray for them. the fact is rape can lead to pregnancy. the truth is rape has many victims. the mistake i made was in the words i said, n
blount was joined by four senators urging him to step aside. mitt romney urged the congressman to accept their counsel and exit the senate race. instead akin remained defiant accusing the republican presidential candidate of making a bigger deal than is necessary over his comments. "if you were in romney's position, don't you think that he may have bid this thing up and made a bigger deal about it than he needed to? why couldn't he run his ways raised and i run mine"? "can you...
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senator roy blount is the leading indicator the establishment republicans see their hopes of trying to regain the senate slipping away. they're losing ground in wisconsin, losing ground in other states and they've got to hold missouri with this candidate they have already criticized. >> i mean, the claim for why everybody came out against todd akin when he made the rape comments was that those comments were offensive. and that's why republicans were supposedly trying to dump him and tem him to get off the ticket at that point. seems now clear unless it stopped being offensive after a month has passed as they're back to supporting him, seems that was just tactical about trying to get somebody in there to win that race they weren't really offended by the comments. that just gets us back to the original defense of what it was that todd akin said. roy blount and the national republican senate committee try to get back in there they are putting themselves back in the debate. >> rachel maddow, tonight, of course, as always, at 9:00 on msnbc. and next week special time 8:00 for our prime time
senator roy blount is the leading indicator the establishment republicans see their hopes of trying to regain the senate slipping away. they're losing ground in wisconsin, losing ground in other states and they've got to hold missouri with this candidate they have already criticized. >> i mean, the claim for why everybody came out against todd akin when he made the rape comments was that those comments were offensive. and that's why republicans were supposedly trying to dump him and tem...
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this is how radical the blount amendment is. but here's the thing i want america to understand. we are on a highway bill, a transportation bill. a bill that has come out of four committees with strongç bipartisan support. 2.million jobs are at stake. there are so many construction workers out of work because of the housing downturn. we want to put them back to work. and what's the first amendment that republicans put up? a contraception amendment, which they say is about religious freedom which has nothing to do with it because president obama has taken care of that. in a grand compromise which catholic charities support and the catholic health organizations support and catholics united superior. so that's taken care of. they're just radical and going after women's health. that's the truth. >> obviously, the conversation is offtrack when you talk about the promising conversations, the bipartisan support for the highway bill that you mentioned. senator murray is promising failure for the blunt amendment coming up tomorrow. i want to let everybody know in virginia, the governor
this is how radical the blount amendment is. but here's the thing i want america to understand. we are on a highway bill, a transportation bill. a bill that has come out of four committees with strongç bipartisan support. 2.million jobs are at stake. there are so many construction workers out of work because of the housing downturn. we want to put them back to work. and what's the first amendment that republicans put up? a contraception amendment, which they say is about religious freedom...
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she should have come out against the blount amendment. when rush limbaugh trashed that girl, he should have come out and infinitely stronger way and said that young woman was doing just what she had to do and rush limbaugh's comments were reprehensible, et cetera. it's an accumulation of things. also, vetting paul ryan. did they vet paul ryan well? did they understand he was cosponsor of this type of bill? did they understand he actually wrote and asked for stimulus money after denouncing stimulus? did they understand that in 2002, he avidly supported president bush's stimulus. doesn't seem to me they paid much attention to any of that. >> i would think on the issue of abortion especially they would look at what his record is, given this has been a tough one for mitt romney. i mean it's been an issue that -- >> impossible one. >> impossible one. issue you know at some point you're going to be asked about. how hidden is this legislation? >> but they probably did, right? what does mitt romney fear when -- in a campaign like this? he doesn't
she should have come out against the blount amendment. when rush limbaugh trashed that girl, he should have come out and infinitely stronger way and said that young woman was doing just what she had to do and rush limbaugh's comments were reprehensible, et cetera. it's an accumulation of things. also, vetting paul ryan. did they vet paul ryan well? did they understand he was cosponsor of this type of bill? did they understand he actually wrote and asked for stimulus money after denouncing...
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. >> i thought a seminole moment in the campaign is when mitt romney was asked about the blount amendment. and his first response, i would never be in favor of it. the next day he was for the bloenlt amendment. he had a chance to carve out some relationship with women by saying it's abusive and i'm against it. what are conservatives going to do? vote for barack obama? he had so many chances during the campaign to carve out his own identity, which i think is closer to the real mitt romney. >> mark halperin? >> two events here in the city. he talked about his roles in the city. very educational. very educational show with brian. showed that he's a policy guy, cared about issues as the governor dug into him. but that mitt romney does not get very much attention and he doesn't put it on display very often. and it's now -- the thing he has to become is a fighter. he has to have guys like joe scarborough look at him every day and say he's fighting for the party, for the country, and fighting to turn the country around. i don't see that but if he doesn't see that. em's going to be very hard to k
. >> i thought a seminole moment in the campaign is when mitt romney was asked about the blount amendment. and his first response, i would never be in favor of it. the next day he was for the bloenlt amendment. he had a chance to carve out some relationship with women by saying it's abusive and i'm against it. what are conservatives going to do? vote for barack obama? he had so many chances during the campaign to carve out his own identity, which i think is closer to the real mitt romney....